Spanish characters in XSLt

Nikunj

We cannot display spanish characters properly in an html
Our code generates a html of a dcr using xslt.
The xsl has the following tag
< P class="paragraph" >< xsl:value-of select="//body/introparagraph" disable-output-escaping="yes"/ > < /P >

Due to the disable output escaping tag,the formatting tags which are present in the dcr text areas using visual format (for eg < p > or   etc) get reflected properly in the htmls.

However our Spanish xml has the following tag value

< segement > Pequeña empresa < /segment >

The character ‘ñ’ does not show up properly in the html.

If we remove the disable output escaping tag ,the html prints the character ‘ñ’
Properly however it then does not convert the visual formatted tags and prints them as it is.

We noticed that if our xml has this value
< segment >Peque&ntilde;a empresa < /segment > instead of ‘ñ’ directly with the disable output escaping tag present our problem is resolved.

However we have ‘ñ’ in all our xmls which cannot be replaced by ‘&ntilde;’

Is there a way where we could have both,the visual formatted tags converted to their rightful meaning in an html and also get the char ‘ñ’ printed.

yanSi

I thought the VFE automatically converts special characters into html entities.

Previously, I had to deal with French characters not in VFE fields and found that if the tpl (or in your case, the xsl) file was saved in UTF-8 format, then you won't have to convert the chars into entities. Make sure the xsl is SAVED, not DECLARED to have UTF-8 encoding.